Journal of Business and Technical Communication Jan 1993

The Technical Communicator as Author: Meaning, Power, Authority

JENNIFER DARYL SLACK ; DAVID JAMES MILLER ; JEFFREY DOAK Michigan Technological University

Abstract

The authors explore the parallels to be found by comparing descriptions of the technical communicator with differing views of the communication process—the transmission, translation, and articulation views of communication. In each of these views, the place of the technical communicator and of technical discourse shifts with respect to the production of meaning and relations of power. The authors argue from the standpoint of the articulation view for a new conception of the technical communicator as author and of technical communication as a discourse that produces an author.

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Journal of Business and Technical Communication
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1993-01-01
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10.1177/1050651993007001002
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